County Antrim QA Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Quality Assurance (QA) skills within the County Antrim region with a comparison to our Quality Assurance & Compliance category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Quality Assurance (QA)
Location Avon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Braintree Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochester Salisbury Scotland Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	17	28
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	10	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	100.00 %	22.22 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£340	-
Average daily rate	£383	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£425	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£362	£338
% change on same period last year	+7.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.11	£27.96
% change on same period last year	+11.26 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance County Antrim
Matching contract IT job ads	10	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.010 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£340	-
Average daily rate	£383	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£425	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£370	£358
% change on same period last year	+3.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.11	£23.27
% change on same period last year	+7.86 %
QA Northern Ireland

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing QA across the County Antrim region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing QA across the County Antrim region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the County Antrim region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Belfast	+10	10	£383	-

QA Northern Ireland

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the County Antrim region citing QA also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited QA.

1 6 (42.86 %) SQL Server 2 5 (35.71 %) Sybase 2 5 (35.71 %) Finance 3 4 (28.57 %) C# 3 4 (28.57 %) SQL 3 4 (28.57 %) .NET 3 4 (28.57 %) Integration Testing 4 3 (21.43 %) Web Testing 4 3 (21.43 %) Test Scripting 4 3 (21.43 %) Banking 4 3 (21.43 %) Derivative 4 3 (21.43 %) Telecoms 4 3 (21.43 %) UNIX 4 3 (21.43 %) Windows 4 3 (21.43 %) HP

4 3 (21.43 %) ISEB 4 3 (21.43 %) WinRunner 4 3 (21.43 %) Configuration Management 4 3 (21.43 %) Project Management 4 3 (21.43 %) Pharmaceutical 5 2 (14.29 %) TestDirector 5 2 (14.29 %) Education 5 2 (14.29 %) Perforce 5 2 (14.29 %) BusinessObjects 5 2 (14.29 %) RDBMS 5 2 (14.29 %) Datawarehouse 5 2 (14.29 %) Business Objects 5 2 (14.29 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 2 (14.29 %) Investment Banking 5 2 (14.29 %) BusinessObjects XI

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the County Antrim region citing QA also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited QA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (28.57 %) .NET 2 1 (7.143 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 1 (7.143 %) WebLogic
Business Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) BusinessWorks	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (42.86 %) SQL Server 2 2 (14.29 %) Datawarehouse 2 2 (14.29 %) RDBMS 2 2 (14.29 %) BusinessObjects 2 2 (14.29 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 2 (14.29 %) BusinessObjects XI
Development Applications 1 3 (21.43 %) WinRunner 2 2 (14.29 %) TestDirector	General 1 5 (35.71 %) Finance 2 3 (21.43 %) Pharmaceutical 2 3 (21.43 %) Telecoms 2 3 (21.43 %) Banking 3 2 (14.29 %) Investment Banking 3 2 (14.29 %) Education
Job Titles 1 4 (28.57 %) Test Manager 2 3 (21.43 %) Test Engineer 2 3 (21.43 %) QA Engineer 3 2 (14.29 %) Contracts Manager 3 2 (14.29 %) Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) Analyst 4 1 (7.143 %) J2EE Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) Senior Analyst Programmer 4 1 (7.143 %) Analyst Programmer 4 1 (7.143 %) Programmer 4 1 (7.143 %) Senior Analyst 4 1 (7.143 %) Java Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) .NET Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) C# Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) .NET Analyst Programmer 4 1 (7.143 %) Senior Programmer 4 1 (7.143 %) .NET Programmer 4 1 (7.143 %) Senior .NET Analyst Programmer 4 1 (7.143 %) Senior .NET Programmer 4 1 (7.143 %) Java/J2EE Developer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (21.43 %) Derivative
Operating Systems 1 3 (21.43 %) UNIX 1 3 (21.43 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (28.57 %) Integration Testing 2 3 (21.43 %) Web Testing 2 3 (21.43 %) Configuration Management 2 3 (21.43 %) Project Management 2 3 (21.43 %) Test Scripting 3 2 (14.29 %) Manual Testing 4 1 (7.143 %) Business Intelligence 4 1 (7.143 %) Test Management
Programming Languages 1 4 (28.57 %) C# 1 4 (28.57 %) SQL 2 1 (7.143 %) Shell Script 2 1 (7.143 %) Java 2 1 (7.143 %) C	Qualifications 1 3 (21.43 %) ISEB
Vendors 1 5 (35.71 %) Sybase 2 3 (21.43 %) HP 3 2 (14.29 %) Business Objects 3 2 (14.29 %) Perforce 4 1 (7.143 %) BEA 4 1 (7.143 %) TIBCO